For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?" After FBI agents determined that talks with
The standoff between law enforcement and an Alabama man who held a boy in a bunker for seven days ended with the suspect dead and the 5-year-old safely rescued.
Alabama Hostage Standoff: Jimmy Lee Dykes Dead. Authorities rescue five-year-old boy held in a bunker for seven days. 02:20 | 02/04/2013. Related Links: Watch: Hostage Standoff: Drones Fly Over Alabama Bunker · Watch: Police Officials Thank Hostage
This photograph released by the Alabama Department of Public Safety shows Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver officials identify as the suspect in a fatal shooting and hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Department
(CBS News) MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - Hard to imagine what was going through the mind of Jimmy Lee Dykes. But CBS News has learned he had stored homemade bombs in his underground bunker where he held a five-year-old boy hostage. Dykes was killed
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